Reply to post: It is and remains a lot of BS..

EU desperately pushes just-as-dodgy safe harbour alternatives

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It is and remains a lot of BS..

Really, the absolute only thing that FB vs EU has done was making a problem visible that has existed for more than a decade and I, frankly, have little time for the wailing of the US that ripping off the Safe Harbor plaster hurts, nor for the EU bureaucrats stumbling that they didn't mean to, because they should have started digging under that plaster years earlier instead of pretending that Safe Harbor did anything but save their political skin.

The frankly grotesque difference between how the US and the EU treat privacy has been a festering boil that needed lancing for year, and Silicon Vally has known this too.

I'm glad this is now finally on the table so maybe, just maybe, the US may find itself in a position where it has to fix some of it, because it is not the EU who started to take a shortcut with Human Rights.

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